10 May
2015
10 May
'15
9:49 p.m.
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote:
On 2015-05-09 20:39, Kirk B Davis wrote:
There are numerous mentions in that edition of different systems,
RSTS/E, EduSystem 15, 20, 30, 35, 50, and the odd DECsystem-10. One
example, the header for the run for "AMAZIN" says "EDUSYSTEM 30".
I learned a lot about system differences and porting to different
environments when I had a copy of the DEC edition of this book in 1978
and only a 4K Commodore PET at the main library to work on. My first
attempt at typing in a program failed dismally because I didn't yet
know that Microsoft BASIC preferred ":" as a statement separator and
DEC BASIC used "\" (then there was RANDOMIZE and several other
dialectical differences, and beyond that, trying to fit 72-column
outputs on a 40 column machine).
Very educational once I got past the initial stumbles. I typed in a
wad of programs from that book.
-ethan
While not DEC specific don't forget about 101 Basic computer games:
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_decBooks10Mar75_26006648
Right.
And maybe not DEC-specific, but definitely DEC-related as the book was
originally published by DEC, and Dave Ahl was working at DEC when he wrote
it, and I think BASIC+ was the dialect used.